Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a novel published in 1863. Set in a coastal English town during the 1790s, this story follows young Sylvia Robson, torn between two men: her devoted Quaker cousin Philip and Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor. When a press gang forcibly enlists Kinraid, Philip conceals the truth, leading Sylvia to believe her lover is dead. What follows is a tale of deception, marriage, betrayal, and ultimately reconciliation—one Gaskell herself called "the saddest story I ever wrote." (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
Title Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia%27s_Lovers
Credits Produced by Charles Aldarondo. HTML version by Al Haines.
Reading Level Reading ease score: 72.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Historical fiction
Subject Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Subject Women -- England -- Fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 4536
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Dec 28, 2020
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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